[geeks] LCD monitors, Linux, X, et al.

[John Duksta]

At 08:47 PM 6/4/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>My monitor has finally decided that it's time to die.  Of course, it's
>going slowly, just to piss me off.
>
>Anyone have an opinion for a 15" LCD monitor to use for my Linux and
>(gack) Windows box?  I've been looking around, and can't find a whole
>hell of a lot of info regarding running X on one of these suckers.
>
>Any and all info is appreciated.

I've got a couple of Princeton SENergy panels here at home.
The 15" panel (SENergy 560) is on my wife's Windows box, and
the 17" panel (750) is connected to my machines via the KVM
switch. I've had no problems using it under either Windows
or Linux.

While the SENergy's are a bit more pricy than other panels
available, I went for them for a few reasons:
- Dual inputs, both VGA and DVI-I. While I don't have any
   video cards that support DVI-I right now, It's good to
   have the option for the future.
- They do the 'pivot' thing... so I can tip it up into
   portrait mode. (handy for doing big documents and for
   reading guitar tab online)
- They're not beige... nice charcoal grey base with a silver
   tone frame around the panel.

While they'll take a wide range of refresh rates, LCD panels
actually prefer to be fed a 60Hz signal when dealing with analog.
Because it's not a tube, you don't get the 60Hz flicker that
you would with a CRT, and 60Hz is the native refresh rate that
they work with internally.

Setting up X wasn't a big deal. I run SuSE, and the SaX config
util had an option for a LCD panel. Simply selected the right
resolution and off it goes, no problems whatsoever.

-john